TY - BOOK AU - Ashford,Brenda TI - A spoonful of sugar: a true story of life as a Norland nanny in wartime England SN - 9780753153246 (hbk.) U1 - 649.092 23 PY - 2013///, c2012 CY - Oxford PB - ISIS KW - Ashford, Brenda, KW - Nannies KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Large type books N1 - Originally published: London: Hodder, 2012 N2 - Brenda is 91 years old and spent 62 years working as a Norland Nanny. Brenda began training at the Norland Institute in 1939 at the age of 18, shortly before war was declared. Even as a nervous young trainee, Brenda was determined to give the children in her care a wonderful childhood. She worked with evacuees from the East End, as well as in the nurseries of smart Kensington homes. She frequently put her life at risk, dashing to air raid shelters with her charges clutched to her chest ER -